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Steven D. Gold Award

APPAM approved participation in this award in 1997 when the Policy Council adopted a policy for the creation of awards in recognition or memory of a specific person. That policy states that the association will not use operating funds to support honoraria for such awards. Accordingly, this award does not offer an honorarium. This is the only award offered through APPAM that also is offered by other associations in the public policy and management field.

The Steve Gold Award recognizes a person who has made a significant contribution to public financial management in the field of intergovernmental relations and state and local finance. The award is given annually by APPAM, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the National Tax Association, in memory of Steve Gold, an active member of all three organizations whose career and life tragically were shortened by illness.

Winners receive a plaque and recognition at the annual conference of the specific organization that chairs the selection committee. APPAM will convene the selection committee for the 2014 award.

The selection committee may decide not to make an award in any particular year.

Nominations are welcomed from any institution.

The sponsoring organizations rotate in chairing the selection committee. The National Tax Association will convene the selection committee for the 2015 award.

Nominations are currently closed.

Award Recipients

2014: Ronald C. Fisher, Michigan State University

2013: Stephen Klein, Vermont Joint Fiscal Office

2012: David Sjoquist of Georgia State University

2011: Andrew Reschovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison, La Follette School of Public Affairs

2010: Gary Olson, Director of the Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency

2009: George Zodrow, Rice University

2008: Elizabeth Hill, California Legislative Analysts Office

2007: Robert Lang, Director of the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau

2006: Gary Cornia, Brigham Young University

2005: Robert Strauss, Carnegie Mellon University

2004: David Crotts, Chief Economist, State of North Carolina Legislature

2003: William Fox, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

2002: Helen Ladd, Duke University

2001: Robert Keaton, Chief Budget Analyst and Director of the State Senate Fiscal Office, State of Louisiana

2000: Robert Ebel, World Bank Institute

1999: Robert Greenstein and Iris Lav, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities